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The Internet to East Africa, is severely impaired. Ben Roberts, Group CTIO Liquid Intelligent Technologies tweeted on Sunday.He said, All sub-sea capacity between East Africa and South Africa is down. With the EASSy cable fault confirmed and the S

Hubble Network has just achieved something that was once thought impossible: the first-ever Bluetooth connection directly to space. Backed by a $20 million series A funding round from industry giants like Transpose Platform and Y Combinator, Hubb

By Ryan Falkenberg, Co-CEO, CLEVVA It took just two months for ChatGPT, the most popular generative AI tool on the market, to reach 100 million users. Ryan Falkenberg Whats remarkable is that the technology is still evolvi

By Callan Abrahams, Principal AI Consultant, iOCO Callan Abrahams Callan Abrahams Despite the fact that AI is in its infancy relatively speaking it is developing exponentially, and while we havent yet made a machine inte

A historic solar storm impacted Earth throughout the night on Friday, 10 May 2023 and continued into Saturday, 11 May 2024. The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) Space Weather Centre issued several G4 warnings and, for the first time sin

By Elizabeth Gibney In principle, a nuclear clock could be even more precise than the worlds current best timekeepers, known as optical clocks , and less sensitive to disturbances. A nuclear timekeeper could also allow physicists to

A landmark study released today by World Wide Worx, in partnership with Mastercard, Peach Payments, and Ask Afrika, reveals significant growth in South Africa's online retail sector, which surged to R71-billion in 2023. This remarkable growth rep

In Asia, a disturbing threat has emerged where malicious actors get victims facial data and create convincing deepfake videos to gain access to their bank accounts. This raises the question: How safe and effective is facial authentication?

Nutanix has become a frontrunner for enterprises seeking to navigate the turbulent waters of IT disruption as well as for those seeking to future-proof their infrastructure investments. This is according to Troye CEO Helen Kruger. Troye CE